₦airaland Forum

gbengapro:
As expected, cyber sycophants are already at work. 10-point agenda my foot.
Now let us review Fashola's performance 3 years in office on his 10 point agenda
Roads: how many km of roads has he rehabilitated in Lagos in 3 years? How many new roads has been constructed? Has the road to your own house been rehabilitated? The answers are that he has only rehabilitated few high profile roads to get public attention. [b]Over 90% of Lagos roads are still bad, pot-hole ridden and not motorable. Score= 10%[/b]Transportation: Fashola did not do BRT, Pedro (not even Tinubu) did. BRT has been implemented by Fashola wrongly and has caused more congestions for motorists. There is also no accountability and transparency in the scheme. And only a minority of lagosians enjoy BRT. Most still move around in molue and danfos. Where is the integrated transportation he promised. Only exists on paper. Score= 15%
Power and Water: where is the new power project?Do you have clean piped water in your own house? Less than 10% of lagosians enjoy public water supply from the state water corporation-a cesspool of corruption that has gulped billions of public funds. Score= 2%
Health: the state is riddled with poor health infrastructure. If in doubt, visit Ikeja general hospital for treatment and share your experience. Score= 5%
Education: where are the millineum schools in the LGAs? Lagos schools are sub standard and facilities are dilapidated in many schools. If in doubt, visit your local primary school near your house. Score 10%
Employment: Lagos is riddled with millions of unemployed. This Govt has aggravated the problem by closing and demolishing markets, levying high taxes on businesses and creating a disabling environment for businesses. They have only created jobs for their political thugs in lastma uniforms and lawma street cleaners. Score 5%
Shelter: no new low cost housing in 3 years, arbitrary charges an land and building transactions, Corrupt land policies, etc have created the worst housing crisis ever in Lagos. If in doubt, try and rent a room or apartment and share your experience. Score 5%

The honest truth is that Fashola thrives on propaganda and lies. He has done little to improve the lots of the masses in Lagos. He only plant flowers on the highway and make noise in the media.
I tried to be as objective as possible. If you have undisputed facts to counter my scoring please come forward. No insult or abuses, just facts please
My conclusion is that Fashola so far is a failure and have corruption allegations hanging on his neck.
We are waiting for him and his sycophants to seek re-election. We shall then release more facts

080Nigeria:
Oyo state has always had more than it's fair share of disgraceful governors.

Aloy+Emeka:
Do they have a PHD like Akala?

paddy_lo:
The current Governor of Abia State was far from being OBJs stooge

matter of fact he was in an EFCC cell,being detained by OBJ,bewfore he won the election
and had to be released due to the immunty Governors have

Hope u know he is from a party called PPA. . .not PDP

Dis Guy:
I laugh in 01010100101010 x 10100010110001001

oisehumen:
Without any prejudice, am not aware that there is Governor in Oyo State.
Everything about that state is horrible but it should not come from Tinubu's mouth; that's my point.

9ijaprince:
Mr water: did you just say that Tinubu is a failed governor? You must be kidding.

Beaf:
Exactly!
He was also very heavily fined (about $500,000) for being involved in drug running in the US.

nulldev:
The 'Awo stole 1951 election' story is a fabrication that I see repeated (quite often) not only on this thread but all over this forum, as I said under one of the many threads that this was parroted on, read the article below on NVS which analysed the 51 elections with candidate names and party affiliations.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/guest-articles/rebutting-ralph-uwechues-lie.html

For those allergic to reading, the long and short is this:

The total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80-member Western Regional Assembly was as follows: Action Group 38; Independent/AG 15; NCNC 24; Independent/NCNC 3. Three members of the NCNC who had been elected to the House changed party allegiance that day ahead of the House of Representatives vote. They were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions.

Pray tell, how those that 'introduce tribalism into Nigeria'

Bear in mind the following

1. Egbe Omo oduduwa was formed years after the Ibo state union was formed with Zik as president.
2. The Nigerian youth movement of which Awo and Zik were members was dissolved as a result of the fallout of an election in 1941 between Samuel Akinsanya (supported by Zik) and Ernest Ikoli supported by Awo. Ikoli won said election and Zik's accusation at the time? That it was an Eko conspiracy against Ijebus! never mind that Awo was Ijebu.

Here is a quote unedited from Awos Biography written prior to independence on he's rivalry with Zik which should shed a lot more light on the politics of the time and put it in its proper context:

An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.

May you live in good health,

I am enlightened.
We now know why Ziik was a big failure,

Kobojunkie:
I am sorry dishonesty is not my style. Let credit be given Marwa for the work he did. He may have been part of the Millitary situation but the man did for Lagos what Tinubu DENIED Lagos for 8 years after. Marwa, in just two years, rebuilt most of the roads, and put in well-needed drainage systems, all of which Tinubu allowed to decay for 8 solid years.

Should I now LIE about all that, so we can give blind praise to Tinubu for doing NOTHING for 8 years?

EzeUche:
sjeezy8,

A Northerner would never vote for a Muslim from the south so you must be smokin some strong Igbo. The reason being is that they do not see Yoruba Muslims as real Muslims, but as Pseudo-Muslims.

The north will not be happy until one of them is President again. Not some Yoruba Muslim.

sjeezy8:
I didnt even know this topic was going to be made outta what I posted. You see all these self praising goats in the other threads are talking BULL SHIOT NOW.

Awolowo during his time was cream of the crop- I give it to him


Thats real politicking right there- So in general it was Zik who solidified the "fake North" and put the middle belt under northern Hegemony, which is Why Nigeria is where it is too day. Zik na real Ode

If Awolowo was such a tribalist why the HELL did he pick an igbo as his vice- On his part he messed up and should have gone with a northern muslim.

Onlytruth:
^^
I'm still waiting for the answer to my question: What did Awolowo do for ALL Nigerians that[b] cost Yoruba anything[/b]?
If the answer is none (which it is), how can anyone call him a national leader?